Shah of Indian Infrastructure
Publication details: New Delhi Burda Media India Private Limited 2019Edition: Vol.36(12), DecemberDescription: 50-52pSubject(s): Online resources: In: Architecture+DesignSummary: Today, if you land at any Indian airport, the chances are it has been designed by Charanjit Shah’s Creative Group. Similarly, most new metro, multi-modal transport hubs spreading all across the metropolitan and tier II cities of the country, in their march to urban renewals, under dynamic smart city missions or other such schemes; the project has been perhaps handled by the same group! To be at the vanguard of building ‘new India’s march towards creating a pan India network of new-age infrastructure in the fields of transport, industry, institutions of higher learnings or housing– Creative Group has it’s hand in it. What more pivotal that the most prestigious and most talked about international talked about project Kartarpur Landport Corrdior being inaugurated by the Prime Minister, is also designed by this group. And it all started with a humble dream of Charanjit Shah, a young graduate of SPA in the 1970s, a time of Indian architectural Renaissance when so much flowering of the young Indian modernists, trying to discover their traditional roots forged new paths to carve out a distinct Indian identity of architecture, expressed in new materials and technologies– yet imbibing the core principles of its time tested vernacular built forms.| Item type | Current library | Status | Barcode | |
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|  Articles Abstract Database | School of Architecture Archieval Section | Not for loan | 2021-2021787 | 
                                                    
                                                        Today, if you land at any Indian airport, the chances are it has been designed by Charanjit Shah’s Creative Group. Similarly, most new metro, multi-modal transport hubs spreading all across the metropolitan and tier II cities of the country, in their march to urban renewals, under dynamic smart city missions or other such schemes; the project has been perhaps handled by the same group!
To be at the vanguard of building ‘new India’s march towards creating a pan India network of new-age infrastructure in the fields of transport, industry, institutions of higher learnings or housing– Creative Group has it’s hand in it. What more pivotal that the most prestigious and most talked about international talked about project Kartarpur Landport Corrdior being inaugurated by the Prime Minister, is also designed by this group.
And it all started with a humble dream of Charanjit Shah, a young graduate of SPA in the 1970s, a time of Indian architectural Renaissance when so much flowering of the young Indian modernists, trying to discover their traditional roots forged new paths to carve out a distinct Indian identity of architecture, expressed in new materials and technologies– yet imbibing the core principles of its time tested vernacular built forms.
                                                    
                                                
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